and benghazi was an attack on us, it was not a scandal by us. and nobody is taking away anyone's guns. and taxes have not gone up. and the deficit is dropping, actually. and saddam hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction. and the moon landing was real. and fema is not building concentration camps. and you and election observers are not taking over texas. and moderate reforms of the regulations on the insurance industry and the financial services industry in this country are not the same thing as communism. listen, last night was a good night for liberals and for democrats for very obvious reasons, but it was also, possibly, a good night for this country as a whole. because in this country, we have a two-party system in government. and the idea is supposed to be that the two sides, both come up with ways to confront and fix the real problems facing our country. they both propose possible solutions to our real problems. and we debate between those possible solutions. and by the process of debate, we pick the best idea. that competition be